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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. interj. Used to express a demand for silence.
  2. v. To demand silence from by saying "shush”: "Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly in church” ( William Golding).

Wiktionary

  1. v. To be quiet; to keep quiet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'

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‘shush’ has been looked up 1089 times, added to 14 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 11.